How to pay into your current account

The amount of cash you can pay in at any Nationwide branch counter is £5,000 per account, per day.

You will need your current account card or proof of identification, like your passport or driving licence.

If you are paying a large amount of cash, we will need to ask you questions like where the money came from and how you use your account. We may also need to ask for extra documentation to prove where the money came from.

You can also pay in coins or cash, but please check our page before you visit to find out what we can accept.

Anyone — including you — can pay into your current account using an account with another building society or a bank. The sender will need:

You can find your sort code and account number on:

• the front of your Nationwide card
• the top of your current account statement
• the Banking app, under your current account's name
• the Internet Bank, under your current account's name
• each cheque in your chequebook.

Insert the current account card you want to pay into at a Nationwide branch’s cash machine, then choose the option to make a deposit.

You can feed your cash and cheques into these machines.

• Cash limit: the maximum you can pay in each day is £2,500. You cannot deposit more than 90 notes per transaction.
• Cheque limit: the maximum for a single cheque is £2,000, with a daily limit of £50,000.

You’re given an envelope from the cash machine to put your cash and cheques into, which you then feed back into the machine.

• Cash limit: up to £2,500 a day, but you can only deposit up to 30 notes per envelope, per transaction.
• Cheque limit: up to £2,000 per day.

You can pay into your current account by post using cheques.